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Law and Society

Cornell University Law School

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Institutional Fixes Versus Fixed Institutions, Robert C. Hockett Jan 2006

Institutional Fixes Versus Fixed Institutions, Robert C. Hockett

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

A number of philosophers, policy thinkers and activists have despaired over the prospect that global institutions can bring progressive change to the international order. They advocate that those who would change things should place their hopes in global social movements rather than global institutions. This essay humbly suggests that we ought to do both. Global institutions require an active global civil society that includes social movements if they would not lose their senses of mission and purpose. Global social movements for their part require global institutions to serve as focal points for their efforts, which are otherwise threatened with diffusion …